Anyway I've made some progress, PC-BSD is installed and I've mounted the 1tb ext hdd and all the files are there, but the 60gb hdd wont mount on any PC so it's probably knackered, but my daughter has a 250gb ext hdd so I'll borrow that tomorrow and start copying the files over

the ext hard drive my daughter has is formatted to NTFS, will PC-BSD mount that and if not what file system should I format it to that can be read by PC-BSD & Linux ?

Graeme

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Another way I thought of doing this would be to resize the partition on the 1tb drive containing the files leaving enough space to create a new ext4 partition large enough to copy the files over to so I would have 2 sets of identical files on 2 separate partitions on the same drive then when all the files are copies over to OMV I would then just have to delete the ufs partition and extend the ext4 partition to the full size of the drive, that way I wouldn't have to sync all the files back over to the 1tb drive when everything's transferred (hope I've explained that ok)

The problem with that plan is that I see no way of resizing the partition on the 1tb drive in gparted, the option to resize is greyed out

Could that work ?

Graeme

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I tried mounting a UFS partition in Peppermint earlier (in exactly the way SeZo mentions), and even though I'd installed ufsutils and modprobed ufs it still wasn't recognised as a valid mount -t option (and I'm seeing that on the web a LOT ... some pages suggest support needs compiling into the kernel, but if that's the case, why is there a ufs module )

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Yeah I tried some time ago to get ufs partitions to mount in Linux following various tutorials and I couldn't get it to work either and just assumed I wasn't doing it right.

Anyway everything went pear shaped last night and I had to reinstall OMV (long story) anyway as it happens BSD wont mount anything other than ufs but it will let me access my Windows partition via gigolo so I can transfer to that partition then access them through either Windows or Linux and copy them to the 250 ext HDD frm there, then connect the ext drive to OMV and copy over which I'm doing now, it's not too bad it takes around 6 hours to transfer 100gb approx

Many thanks

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